Normandy 1944
Purple Heart Lane / Carentan causeway
101st context
GuideNormandy 1944
AreaCarentan & the causeways
Type101st context
Time to allow30 min
LocationExact spot known
GPS49.31470, -1.25940
The story
The causeway toward Carentan became notorious: troops advancing along it were exposed with no room to manoeuvre. Chiefly a 502nd PIR story, but it is the battlefield Easy moved into.
What to look for
Imagine artillery and machine-gun fire channelled onto a narrow approach with marsh either side.
Nearby sites
- Carentan · 2 km
- Douve / Dead Man's Corner sector · 2 km
- Dead Man's Corner / D-Day Experience · 2 km
- St-Côme-du-Mont · 3 km
- Bloody Gulch / Hill 30 sector · 3 km
- Musée Mémorial de Bloody Gulch · 3 km
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Easy Company: Normandy
A free field guide for your phone: the route, the maps and the stories built in, even with no signal. The places of the Normandy campaign of June–July 1944, following Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry, 101st Airborne, from the night drop and Brécourt Manor to Utah Beach and Carentan, with Omaha, Pointe du Hoc, the British and Canadian beaches and the best museums along the way.
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